Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’

 

Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’

Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’

Alan Hollinghurst, Colm Tóibín, Adam Mars-Jones, Olivia Laing, Mendez, Tom Crewe and Seán Hewitt

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Man Booker Prize 2000 / The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

MAN  BOOKER PRIZE 2000

Booker club: The Blind Assassin

Where women grow on trees

Margaret Atwood creates a world with a strange take on nature - and maths - in The Blind Assassin

Adam Mars-Jones
Sunday 17 September 200

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Bloomsbury , pp 525

Margaret Atwood new novel is made up of three strands. There are the memoirs of Iris Chase, tracing her progress from prosperous beginnings, daughter of a button factory owner, through a loveless marriage to a plutocrat to a solitary and brooding old age.